Re: [COMP] Volume serial number on disk drives
- From: John Madden <weez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Avenir Mailing List (E-mail)" <computers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 16:24:21 -0500 (EST)
On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Michael V. Franklin wrote:
> Every drive in windows (hard disk or floppy) has a volume serial number.
> It's a 4 byte number that resides on the boot sector of the disk. If you do
> a "dir" at the command prompt, you will see the volume serial number of the
> drive. What is this number for? What are the consequences of changing this
> number?
Interesting question. :) The only thing that I can tell that it's ever
used for is to allow you to identify which disk is where -- ever get that
"Please insert the disk with serial number..." while trying to install
software when you've removed the disk halfway through?
I'm not sure what changing that number would do (I assume it's possible).
I'll ask around...
John
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